Nick Offerman is revealing how he makes a decades-long marriage to Megan Mullally final.
“She's an beautiful goddess. She's the funniest particular person I've ever met – and I've met Mel Brooks and John Cleese,” The Final of Us star, 55, advised The Guardian in an interview revealed on Thursday, September 25. “She dances, she sings. She's a dramatic and comedic genius.”
“She has astonishing style – with just a few apparent lapses. We'll come to blows over who left the cap off the toothpaste,” he continued. “However I'm very grateful that after 25 years, she continues to be selecting me. The worst half is, in the identical means that once I again up a truck and my dad is sitting on my shoulder, once I'm performing, particularly singing, Megan could be very a lot on my shoulder. If you're married to the Lionel Messi of performing, it may be robust to maintain your photographs on aim.”
Offerman and Mullally first met in 2000, once they starred in The Proof Room Theatre Firm's Los Angeles manufacturing of the play The Berlin Circle.
“We had quite a lot of scenes collectively, and I began pondering, ‘Wait a minute, he's humorous,' Mullally advised BuzzFeed in 2013 of assembly her future husband. “After which I began pondering, ‘Wait a minute, is he cute?' What's taking place?'”
Offerman later appeared on Mullally's sequence Will & Grace, and the pair introduced their engagement in 2002. They married in a personal ceremony at their house on September 20, 2003.
Mullally famously went on to visitor star on Parks and Recreation as Tammy Swanson, the loopy ex-wife to Offerman's Ron Swanson.
“The craziest factor about her harmful sexuality was that, in Parks and Recreation, I used to be recognized for preserving a straight face,” Offerman advised The Guardian of his spouse's recurring character. “Chris Pratt would come out of left subject and make me giggle, however I get pleasure from deadpan humor, so usually, no person might make me snicker. Megan would stroll into the room and I'd be carried out as a result of, by definition, she is aware of what buttons to push. All our scenes are her utilizing her sexuality as a weapon towards me, and I misplaced that battle lengthy, way back.”
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That is removed from the primary time the Parks and Rec actor has gushed about his higher half. In 2013, Offerman opened as much as The A.V. Club about his relationship along with his spouse,
“We fell in love, and earlier than lengthy, we might simply inform that we needed to remain collectively and make a life collectively,” he recalled on the time. “We needed to declare to one another and our family and friends that we had been in it to win it.”
Whereas talking completely to Us Weekly in 2025, Offerman spoke about how the duo have made their relationship work. “There are some things — listening and swallowing one's ego might be proper on the prime of the listing,” the Parks and Recreation alum shared. “And having a humorousness.”
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“We've been collectively for about 25 years and the hot button is we all the time make one another snicker,” Offerman continued. “In the meanwhile, particularly residing in Los Angeles, life could be very bleak, surrounded by tragedy and heavy issues [amid the wildfire destruction], and we now have to have the ability to take issues calmly and carry one another via the arduous instances.”
